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NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

MARY BORN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ADMINISTRATRIXOF F. W. BORN,

DECEASED.

OVEN AND CLOSET DOOR FOR RANGES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 481,924, datedSeptember 6, 1892.

Application filedNovember 9, 1891. Serial No. 411,381. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that FREDERICK W. BORN, deceased, late a citizen of theUnited States, and who resided in Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahogaand State of Ohio, during his lifetime invented a certain Improvement inOven and Closet Doors for Ranges and Stoves, as hereinafter fully shownand described in the following specification and drawings annexed.

The said invention relates to improvements in oven and closet doors forranges and stoves, in which is a door having projections at both endsshaped to form springs to aid in the support of the door, on the openingand closing of which it is made to slide upward and downward upon metalways or guides attached to the inside ends of the oven or closet.

The object of the invention is to provide an oven or closet door whichshall not require a fastening to cause it to remain in a closed or openposition and which when open will be confined within the compass of theinside of the oven or closet and out of the way of the person cooking.Said F. W. BORN attained this object by the method illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and described in the following specification, inwhich Figure 1 is a front view of an oven or closet the front of whichis partially broken away, showing the door open; Fig. 2, a transversesection through the oven or closet, showing the door closed in fulllines and open in dotted lines Z; Fig. 3, an enlarged front view of oneend of the door, and Fig. 4 an enlarged end view of the door.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the drawings andspecification.

The oven or closet A is mounted on arange or stove (indicated at B,Figs. 1 and 2) by means of suitable supports and is provided,

with the door 0, having projecting ends a, bent at their lowerextremities to form the spring-like bearings D D, Fig. 1, which slideupon the ways E E and allow the door O to be drawn forward and downwarduntil its lower edge I) rests upon the base F of the closet, therebycompletely closing the opening G of the closet or to be pushed upwardand backward until it assumes a horizontal position at the upper part ofthe interior of the oven A, as indicated by the dotted lines Z, Fig. 2,where it is entirely out of the way. When the door 0 is open, it issupported on the ways E E, (shown by line Z in Fig. 2,) and when thedoor is closed the bearings D rest on the angles 0 0 formed at the lowerterminals of the ways E E. (Best seen in Figs. 2 and 4.) At each end ofthe closetAis a guide H, one of which is shown in Figs. 1 and'2. Theseguides admit of raising the door 0 and by their angular inclinationgcause the door to pass over the curve of the ways E E and rest in theposition seen at Z, which opens the closet. The bearings D are above thecenter of gravity of the door 0 and, by reason of their relativeposition in relation to said door, bring the bearings then on the insideof the closed door, thereby causing the perpendicular inside face of thedoor 0 to be in close contact with the inside face of the closetjambs h,Fig. 1. WVhen the door 0 is closed, the bearings D rest upon theterminal supports 0 of the ways E. The lower portion of the door 0,having a tendency, therefore,when closed, to fall in line with theinterior face of the door-jamb h, presses the top d against thedepending flange e of the oven A, while the lower edge b rests upon thebase F of the closet A, the supports 0, preferably on an angle, to causethe door 0 by its own weight to fall forward in contact with the saidjambs h and flange e, thereby securely closing the opening Gr withoutother means of fastening than that automatically applied, as described.When the door 0 is pushed upward, the top (1 comes in contact with theguides H and is forced downward, while the bearings D, sliding on theways E, force the front upward until the door 0 assumes the horizontalposition indicated by the dotted lines Z, Fig. 2, and the angle formedby the handle f with the door receives the projection or flange e of thecloset A. The elasticity of the bearings D serves, to keep the door 0firmly in place when in this position.

What I do claim as the said FREDERICK W. BORNS invention, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an oven or closet door for ranges or stoves, the combination ofthe door having ment of the (1001,i1l the manner substantially theprojecting ends a and spring-bearlngs D, as set forth. with the Ways Eand the guides H, arranged In testimony whereof Iai'fix in ysignatnre insubstantially as and for the purpose specified. the presence of twowitnesses.

5 2. In an oven or closet for ranges or stoves, MARY BOPN a doorO,having a spring-bearing at each end, 1 I I a N Mi ,./H' m combmanonWlth the Ways E and guldes WMZUZL/ of S'CL/(Z 1 Ti L0: n and AflmmzstiaII, said bearings resting on the lower temninais of the Ways when thedoor is closed, ar- \Vitnesses: 1o ranged as described, whereby thecloset may HENRY BORN,

be opened or closed by the automatic n1ove- XV. H. BURRIDGE.

